Engendering foreign direct investment: Family structure, labor markets and international capital mobility

World Development

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1157-1172

  Braunstein, Elissa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Female labor supply; Gender and foreign direct investment; Household economics; Structuralist macroeconomics

Indexed keywords

CAPITAL FLOW; FAMILY STRUCTURE; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; GENDER ROLE; LABOR MARKET;

EID: 0034126637     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-750X(00)00027-9     Document Type: Article

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